Transforming lives: pilot project for multimedia exhibition that investigates how young people transform their worlds through the arts

这项研究将着眼于如何创建一个现场视觉和互动装置，以展示年轻人如何通过艺术改变他们的世界。它将把正在进行表演的年轻人与那些研究他们参与表演的影响的人聚集在一起，并找到创新的方式来表达从这种相遇中可以得到什么。这项研究将从社会科学、医学、艺术和人文科学以及公共政策的思考和实践中汲取灵感。这项研究将由Paul Heritage领导，他在艺术实践和学术界之间有着20年的工作经验，与政府机构合作创建了大型混合艺术项目。研究助理Gary Stewart是一位学者兼艺术家，他研究、策划和创作了关于身份和表现等复杂问题的现场视觉和互动装置，特别关注由于种族、贫困、社会教育机会等问题而被认为“处于危险”的年轻人的生活。我们将与来自巴西的多媒体设计师Gringo Cardia合作，他在行为装置方面拥有丰富的经验，并在塑造年轻人生活的艺术社会影响方面拥有丰富的经验。最重要的是，它将参与调查年轻人（来自伦敦和曼彻斯特），他们自己也在利用混合艺术活动来应对复杂的挑战。当今最有问题的智力和政治问题之一是艺术对紧急社会问题的影响——涉及健康和福祉的使用、公民权利和社会暴力。如果年轻人想要改变他们的世界，那么他们如何才能最好地调查和倡导这些创造性的过程呢？青年文化的社会组织，他们表达自己的技术和形式，他们所产生的艺术的传播和接受手段，如何被用作一种探索的手段，这本身就是他们所寻求的转变的一部分？一个由年轻和新兴艺术家组成的实地研究团队将与年轻人合作，这些年轻人既处于这些问题的关键，又试图表达他们对转变过程的不同理解。他们将一起尝试用不同的媒体来表达他们的疑问和发现。本次调查的重点是英国，但来自巴西的杰出学者、政策制定者和艺术家将作为学术和艺术过程的研究顾问参与。巴西面临的社会危机的规模令人生畏，但其复杂的文化反应为英国研究这些问题的人提供了丰富的见解。该项目建立在来自不同学科的研究人员、学者、艺术家和政策制定者之间、英国和巴西之间的知识和见解共享的基础上。该项目将寻求创造一个现场视觉和互动装置的方法，在一个反映研究团队和年轻参与艺术家理解的框架内表达和质疑这些过程。有两个关键的研究要求：1。从不同的学科，从艺术从业者和那些参与制定政策付诸实践的专业知识，以创建一个框架，探讨年轻人寻求通过表演艺术改变他们的世界的手段。透过多媒体展览的原型，向从事表演活动的年轻人进行探讨，让他们表达和传播他们的疑问和理解。它将使年轻的参与者、他们的同龄人、那些与他们一起工作的人、那些制定艺术政策和跨学科学术研究社区的人受益。研究结果最终将在公共空间展出。

This research will look at how to create a live visual and interactive installation on how young people transform their worlds through the arts. It will bring together young people who are making performance with those who research the impact of their participation in that making, and find innovative ways to express what can be made from that encounter. The research will draw from the social sciences, medical sciences, arts and humanities and also from thinking and practice in public policy. The research will be led by Paul Heritage, who has two decades experience of working at the interface between art practice and academia, creating large-scale mixed arts projects in partnership with government agencies. The Research Assistant Gary Stewart is a scholar-artist who has researched, curated and created live visual and interactive installations on complex issues of identity and representation, with particular reference to the lives of young people perceived to be 'at risk' because of issues of race, poverty, socio-educational opportunities. We will work with Gringo Cardia, a multimedia designer from Brazil who has extensive experience of performative installation, and the social impact of the arts in shaping young people's lives. Above all it will engage in the enquiry young people [from london and Manchester who are themselves using mixed arts activities to address complex challenges. One of the most problematic intellectual and political issues today is the impact of the arts on urgent social questions - in relation to uses of health and wellbeing, civil rights and social violence. If young people want to transform their worlds, then how best can they investigate and advocate for those creative processes? How can the social organizations of youth culture, the technologies and forms that they express themselves with, the means of dissemination and reception of the arts they produce be used as a means of enquiry which is itself a part of the transformations they seek? A field research team of young and emerging artists will work with young people who are both at the crux of these questions and who themselves are seeking to express their different understandings of the process of transformation. Together they will experiment with different media to articulate their enquiry: their questions and their discoveries. The focus for this investigation is the UK, but distinguished scholars, policy makers and artists from Brazil will participate as research consultants on the academic and artistic processes. The scale of the social crises that Brazil faces are daunting, but the sophistication of its cultural responses offer rich insights to those researching these issues in the UK. The project is built around the sharing of knowledge and insights between researchers from different disciplnes, between academics, artists and those involved in policy, between Britain and Brazil. The project will seek to find ways to create a live visual and interactive installation that express and question these processes within a framework that reflects the understandings of the research team and the young participating artists. There are two key research imperatives:1. To draw on expertise from different academic disciplines, from arts practitioners and those involved in developing policy into practice to create a framework for an enquiry about the means by which young people seek to transform their worlds through the performing arts.2. To pursue the enquiry with young people engaged in the practice of performance so that they can articulate and disseminate their questions and understandings through a prototype for a multimedia exhibition.It will benefit the young participants, their peers, those who work with them, those who form policy about the arts and cross-disciplinary academic research communities. The results of the research will be will eventually be exhibited in accessible public spaces.